Quote Originally Posted by hills View Post
Sometimes the little details like a half a penny can add up to make an important difference.

I've got no idea what a large scrap yard would move in a year. For the sake of argument let's say that they bought and sold ten thousand tons of steel.

A half penny difference in their favor would put an extra hundred grand in their pocket. That's pretty good money gained from chiseling over a seemingly unimportant detail.
Assuming every load was 15 pounds and they kept each half penny, it looks like they would keep $6666.67 money that would be otherwise owed to the scrapper.




10,000 tons x 2,000=20,000,000 pounds

20,000,000/15= 1,333,333 15 pound loads

1,333,333 x 0.005 (the half cent gained for each 15 pound load)= $6,666.67


Not sayin', just sayin'.